About Juan
Juan Martell is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor in Florida who aims to make therapy feel like a real conversation. He speaks English and Spanish and focuses on helping people facing stress, anxiety, grief, low self-esteem, and major life changes. He also offers coaching to support practical next steps.
Juan uses straightforward language and avoids clinical jargon. Sessions focus on identifying unhelpful patterns such as overthinking, avoidance, or a harsh inner critic.
Background and approach
He combines practical strategies with discussions about values and what matters most to each person. In the room he pairs concrete tools with bigger-picture work. Clients leave sessions with small, doable actions to try during the week.
These steps are intended to reduce symptoms and help people move toward a clearer sense of purpose and direction. Juan brings six years of clinical experience to his practice as an LMHC - Licensed Mental Health Counselor. He draws on cognitive and acceptance-based ideas alongside existential themes about meaning, identity, and life goals.
This mix supports both short-term coping and longer-term change. Outside of sessions he writes children’s mental health stories and creates accessible psychology content online. His style is warm and direct, and he emphasizes collaboration so people feel seen while making concrete progress.
Approach-driven care available online
Juan often uses cognitive-behavioral ideas that focus on changing unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. These practical strategies help with symptoms like anxiety, low mood, and intrusive thinking by teaching skills to break patterns and try different actions.He also draws on acceptance-based methods that teach how to notice difficult thoughts and feelings without being driven by them. That approach can help people live toward their values even when discomfort is present. Juan pairs these techniques with existential conversations about meaning, purpose, and identity to help people decide what matters and where to head next.
Choosing the right mix is a collaborative process. He works together with each person to match techniques to their goals, preferences, and life context rather than using a one-size-fits-all plan.
Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect. Video calls let for face-to-face conversation and deeper interaction, phone sessions work well when bandwidth is limited or camera use is not preferred, and live chat or text-based messaging can be helpful for quick check-ins or shorter reflections between sessions. These options make it easier to fit support into a busy schedule and keep momentum between meetings.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Coping with life changes
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Emptiness
- Family problems
- Guilt and shame
- Impulsivity
- Isolation / loneliness
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Mood disorders
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Self-love
- Sexual dysfunction
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Experience
- 6 years
- Licensed
- Florida
- Languages
- English, Spanish